Ramble

Short. Experimental. Digital. Colour. Filmmaker. 2002.

Ramble is a montage of music, motion and spoken word — thoughts moving through a changing landscape reflecting on ‘the Cornish issue’ politics and philosophy, ranting and rambling through the narrow corner of land that is my home.

Screened at the inaugural Cornwall Film Festival 2002
Broadcast NVTV 2004
Exhibited Salt Gallery 2004

My first foray into filmmaking…

After spending many years wandering around the ancient and beautiful landscape of Penwith (in various states of joy, depression, hope, anger, frustration, enthusiasm, despair and love) thinking about what it is to be Cornish, to live in a land where we suffer in silence — for our own tongue was long ago banned from use — day dreaming, night walking, watching & listening to the murmuring echoes of eternal ancestral expressions — then returning to a veneer of modern urbanity, and finding my own expression in writing & music, with a strong sense of landscape imprinted in my mind — it occurred that I should make a film, so I picked up a small handheld digital camcorder and walked from south coast to north from dawn to dusk musing on the written rant which underscored the editing process.

Context for exhibition at the Salt Gallery

“Light and sound dominate learnt communication — technology based media overrides the inherent smell and touch sensing of place, of security and comfort of infant innocence. As we learn to discern features and are taught to think about feelings, defined forms become socialised norms and abstractions dismissed as distractions. Through school the fool is boxed into structures of thought and expression that lessen as the lessons fade. The adult thinks he knows because he grows and plays a part in the real world where the fool knows nothing and is seen to do nothing because nothing he does is a commodity the real world can profit from, but the fool knows the real world is nothing and the adult cannot profit from it because he is nothing and the part he plays is a commodity of form in a socialised norm perpetuated through distractions of sound and light.” (2004)